I don’t think both list compensate each other: take, for example, medicine: there are 1000 ways to die and 1000 ways to be cured – but we eventually die.
Dying is a symmetric problem, it’s not like we can’t die without AGI. If you want to calculate p(human extinction | AGI) you have to consider ways AGI can both increase and decrease p(extinction). And the best methods currently available to humans to aggregate low probability statistics are expert surveys, groups of super-forecasters, or prediction markets, all of which agree on pDoom <20%.
I don’t think both list compensate each other: take, for example, medicine: there are 1000 ways to die and 1000 ways to be cured – but we eventually die.
Dying is a symmetric problem, it’s not like we can’t die without AGI. If you want to calculate p(human extinction | AGI) you have to consider ways AGI can both increase and decrease p(extinction). And the best methods currently available to humans to aggregate low probability statistics are expert surveys, groups of super-forecasters, or prediction markets, all of which agree on pDoom <20%.